Hello everybody! I want to thank you for the nice words and congrats notes on my engagement and on buying a flat. I am very excited about all the things that are happening to me rapidly. The wedding is scheduled for the next month and the day is coming slowly. Off course, I'm gonna make the wedding dress myself, along with a suit for my mom (hehe, there are more people interested in having their outfits made by me, but I don't have enough time for such an endeavor). We're organizing a small wedding for our closest families, and my wedding dress will be a very simple one, not a classic wedding dress.

You see, I hate classic weddings and I find most of the wedding dresses unpractical and quite ugly! I've never been on a wedding where I had fun. To be honest, on most of the wedding I grudge because I find the music awful or too loud (or too loud AND awful) that doesn't move me to dance (and I love to dance), which means the wedding the turns to a whole-day sitting at the table full of food (I've never considered food as an equivalent to a great time). I don't understand the concept of a wedding dress either: a huge, uncomfortable, very expensive dress that you wear just once? If I put my money and effort to make a lovely dress, I want to wear it few more times! So, don't expect a ball gown or a crinoline with a huge train and a long veil from me. Well, I'll write more about the wedding dress after the wedding, since I don't want to ruin the surprise :-).

I'd like to talk about other dress now, the one I've sewn recently, using a self drafted pattern. It's quite simple, straight, classic, decorated with two pockets that transform into belt loops and dive into two small pockets positioned on breast. The fabric is a chocolate colored linen, that I bought having pants on my mind, but the plans changed in the meanwhile... Depending on my mood, I combine the dress with belts and accessories in various colors, and today was the day for golden details.

I know I've been away for a long time and that I haven't posted any new projects recently, but it doesn't mean I haven't been sewing. Actually, I have a lot of new garments to show you, but life has prevented me from blogging regularly. A lot of interesting things happened to me during the past few months, some of them were nice the others were not so nice.

Unfortunately, I had to drop off the SITAM course due to some personal problems, which I won't discuss here.

So, instead of going to Italy for the final exam, I went to the sea with my boyfriend, where I had a great time and got engaged :-). Returning from the sea brought some new questions and decisions which resulted with me buying a flat. It also ended a four-year search for a flat. Now I'm facing some rather sweet problems: interior decoration and wedding preparations. However, I'll write about these things in the following days, and now I'd like to return to the main topic, which is a dress I've made recently.

An inspiration for this dress came from several different places (unfortunately, I can't remember where I downloaded these pictures from - if you know the website these were taken from, or you know a name of the designer, please let me know to edit the information). Thanks to my lovely readers, I found out the top two dresses were Kate Spade's design. I wanted to make a bit different shirt dress, so I played with the pattern and with stripes.

However, the dress turned a bit different... I made the pattern myself. The fabric is a gorgeous striped shirt cotton that I bought last year. The dress is fully lined with a thin white cotton, since the shell fabric was rather transparent.

Kao i obično, veoma sam vodila računa o uklapanju pruga na šavovima.

As per usual, I tried to match all the stripes along the seams.

Haljina ima po dve falte na prednjem i zadnjem delu suknje.

The dress has two knife pleats on both front and back sides of the skirt.

When I was about to sew in the buttons, I faced a problem - I couldn't decide which color to pick, since all the colors matched well with the fabric. At the end, I chose to use buttons in all the colors I had :-).

Today I've stumbled upon an interesting picture on the Sew News' Facebook profile - a cover page of the new magazine issue. And, on the picture, the pants I sewed last year. Oh, how I like to be so pleasantly surprised!

These are sailor pants made of a gorgeous denim that resembles linen. The basis of the pants is the Bella pattern from Burda Style website, while the magazine article describes the pattern alteration using a basic pants sloper. You can find the whole article here.

I still haven't got my sample of the magazine along with the pants. I've been missing these and I'm rather impatient to wear them, since they're really comfortable and appropriate for the summer climate.